This idea came to me as soon as I woke up. An idea simmilar to this has been suggested, although my ideas are a little different.
A refinery would be used to grind up cobblestone, with releasing shards of minerals. It would be powered by coal, and the interface would look like a furnace, although, the collection for items would have more than one slot. Why? So that the cobblestone that is grinded up would come out as gravel, and any shards of metal would be able to appear as well.
So a refinery would look like this in a crafting recipe:
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= diamond = iron
[] = nothing
(Why diamond? Because you would need something strong to grind it up with!)
So, when the refinery is crafted, you would place cobblestone within it, place coal (or any other substance that can be used for fuel) and wait a bit for the refinery to work. The odds of the refinery would be around this: diaomond shard = approx. 1 stack, gold dust = aprrox 35-50 cobblestone, lapis lazuli chunk = 28 - 40 cobblestone, redstone flake = 20 - 40 cobblestone, iron shard = 15 - 30 cobblestone, and coal dust = 8 - 20 cobblestone. (and possibly this as well: gunpowder flake = 15 - 25 cobblestone, and moss seed = 1 - 3 stacks of cobblestone (moss seed would be right-click-applied to any piece of cobblestone and it would start growing moss across it.))
Now what are these shards for? The shards would be smelted in a furnace to create the shards into its actual mineral. I was thinking 8 shards would equal 1 full mineral, just to keep it binary, and to make sure it isn't to easy to get minerals (i hate that).
I was also thinking that you would be able to smelt gravel in a furnace to make it into refined cobblestone (refined cobblestone? so that you can't just resmelt the gravel you refined, and to make gravel have another use if you were actually in need of cobblestone.)
It's pure rock though and you turn it into something else?
Not like Alchemy. The rocks would have traces of metals in them (granite has uranium in RL). It would only be a chance for the stone to output something.
A refinery would be used to grind up cobblestone, with releasing shards of minerals. It would be powered by coal, and the interface would look like a furnace, although, the collection for items would have more than one slot. Why? So that the cobblestone that is grinded up would come out as gravel, and any shards of metal would be able to appear as well.
So a refinery would look like this in a crafting recipe:
[] = nothing
(Why diamond? Because you would need something strong to grind it up with!)
So, when the refinery is crafted, you would place cobblestone within it, place coal (or any other substance that can be used for fuel) and wait a bit for the refinery to work. The odds of the refinery would be around this: diaomond shard = approx. 1 stack, gold dust = aprrox 35-50 cobblestone, lapis lazuli chunk = 28 - 40 cobblestone, redstone flake = 20 - 40 cobblestone, iron shard = 15 - 30 cobblestone, and coal dust = 8 - 20 cobblestone. (and possibly this as well: gunpowder flake = 15 - 25 cobblestone, and moss seed = 1 - 3 stacks of cobblestone (moss seed would be right-click-applied to any piece of cobblestone and it would start growing moss across it.))
Now what are these shards for? The shards would be smelted in a furnace to create the shards into its actual mineral. I was thinking 8 shards would equal 1 full mineral, just to keep it binary, and to make sure it isn't to easy to get minerals (i hate that).
I was also thinking that you would be able to smelt gravel in a furnace to make it into refined cobblestone (refined cobblestone? so that you can't just resmelt the gravel you refined, and to make gravel have another use if you were actually in need of cobblestone.)
Like if you break in to a rock... there is sometimes small amounts of other stuff.
i jsut read that forum after you told me about it, my ideas are a little different, I dont use tools, but instead a stationary machine.
It's pure rock though and you turn it into something else?
Not like Alchemy. The rocks would have traces of metals in them (granite has uranium in RL). It would only be a chance for the stone to output something.
There's no such thing as 'pure' rock. unless its smelted to take out the impurities.